Pump up the Frame Rate

PAW wrote on 3/7/2003, 1:06 PM

I,m thinking of upgrading my 1.6Ghz system, does anyone know what preview frame rate you can achieve at 3Ghz with two clips with a crossfade.

Render times are not too big an issue for me as I have to sleep at some point, I'm more interested in a feel for the real time stuff.

Any feedback on where the main fall offs are on frame rates would also help to justify the expense.

Thanks, PAW

Comments

JohnnyRoy wrote on 3/7/2003, 4:42 PM

I have a 1.7Ghz Pentium 4 and I get 29.97 fps on a crossfade between 2 clips. What are you seeing with your 1.6 that makes you want to upgrade? Perhaps you just need a faster video card?

~jr

PAW wrote on 3/8/2003, 2:23 AM

On two clips it drops down to about 10 fps or less (from 25 I am working in PAL)

My graphics card is a NVidia GeForce2 which I thought was more than enough for video but you seem to be getting far higher frame rates.

RBartlett wrote on 3/8/2003, 3:21 AM

What RAM, DIMM? DDR? RDRAM?
Is this preview on your monitor at full size in addition to preview via DV out?
Is this a preview perceptual fps? Or a render/prerender time related effective processing fps?